One Voice, October 4, 2026

One Voice with Dr Pastor Larry Montgomery Israel's War Psalm 83 and the Coming War Against Israel: Enemies, Election, and a Call to Revival Dr Pastor Larry Montgomery preaches on the coming war against Israel, arguing from 2 Chronicles 20 and Psalm 83 that the enemies are Islamic nations descended from Esau and Ishmael. He closes by calling his congregation to revival and to falling in love with Jesus again. Opening Words and Why This Is Not Ezekiel's War Dr Pastor Larry Montgomery opens the hour with a greeting and a confession that he is perplexed by the circumstances facing the nation, adding that his listeners should be perplexed too. He tells them they are being fed lies from every brand known to mankind. He says he is convinced that the coming conflict is not the war described in Ezekiel 38 and 39, because the enemies are different. Montgomery explains that the wars of those chapters and of Revelation involve Russia, Iran, and even Egypt, while the nations he names in the current threat are Muslim nations. He argues that Russia has shown little animosity toward Jews, apart from expelling them during the war, and that the United States has shown the same restraint until now. The difference, he says, is religion, and he claims that more than half of the Russian army is Muslim. He admits some of what he says will draw criticism, as it has before, but says he is not fearful. Jehoshaphat, the Singers, and the Echoing Valley Montgomery turns the congregation to 2 Chronicles chapter 20, where King Jehoshaphat stands before the Lord as the armies of Moab and Ammon come against Israel. He reads the king's prayer, which asks God to judge the enemy and confesses that Israel has no might against so great a company. Montgomery stresses that the king's eyes are fixed on God, and he says he wishes Israel's leadership would make that same public statement today. God's answer, as he tells it, is to send singers down into the valley ahead of the army, singing that God's mercy endures forever. Montgomery describes the song echoing off the rocks until the enemy hears what seems like millions of voices and turns on itself. He notes that no Hebrew sword is drawn and that the spoil takes several trips to carry away. He says he has been telling his wife all week that he is looking for God to work a miracle, and he expects this war to draw Israel back together. Psalm 83 and the Enemies of God Montgomery moves to Psalm 83, which he describes as a portrait of this same war, noting that the psalms are prophecy too. He reads the psalmist's cry, 'Keep not silent, O God,' and draws attention to the words 'Lo, thine enemies.' He states plainly that the armies against Israel are the enemies of God, and that the psalm describes them making a tumult and taking crafty counsel against God's hidden ones. He quotes the plot to cut Israel off from being a nation so that its name may be no more in remembrance. Montgomery says the purpose of Islam, in his view, is to eradicate Israel, because its followers hate God and anything that represents him. He reads verse five, in which the enemies consult together with one consent, and he names Edom and the Ishmaelites among them. He tells the congregation that the Arab world, for the most part, descends from Esau and Ishmael, and that this lineage is the key to the whole conflict. Esau, Ishmael, and the Chosen Seed of Jacob Montgomery presses the point that God did not choose Ishmael or Esau. He says God states plainly in Genesis, Malachi, and Romans, and hints in Hebrews, that 'Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated.' He explains that Esau is left out as far as spiritual things are concerned, though not as far as physical things, and that the one God hates becomes a hater of God. The promise, he says, runs through Jacob and the twelve tribes, leaving the other descendants of Abraham outside it. Montgomery claims God revealed himself only to the nation he chose and left the other nations in silence. He then turns to Deuteronomy 7, reading that Israel is a holy people, chosen to be a special people above all the peoples on the earth. He admits that Israel is rebellious and easily drawn into idolatry, yet insists God judges them and brings them home rejoicing. He says Israel has not known peace in the land since it was re-established. A Preacher's Question and Warnings About the Church Montgomery recounts a phone call from a preacher who asked whether the current fighting meant the battle of Armageddon and whether he was still pretribulation. Montgomery tells him it is not yet Armageddon, though this war could set the stage for it, and says the hatred of God is being uncovered both overseas and in the United States. He says that people walking the city streets, and people sitting in churches who would like to walk with them, are, in his words, children of hell. He says he told Ginger that God might open the earth and swallow these people right into hell. He says he has preached for at least twe